Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up

Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
are ten that stand the test of time.

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In article <usa11v$rfv$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
>
> Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
> are ten that stand the test of time.
>
> https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/

I don't remember noticing the Suck Fairy in books that I have reread
decades later. Perhaps it is because I know how old those books are when
I read them (that would also apply when reading old books the first
time).

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On 3/6/24 07:10, James Nicoll wrote:
> Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
>
> Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
> are ten that stand the test of time.
>
> https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/

I believe that I have not read any of them. Pity.
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In article <usahov$jc9r$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
>On 3/6/24 07:10, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
>>
>> Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
>> are ten that stand the test of time.
>>
>> https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/
>
>I believe that I have not read any of them. Pity.

You can read them now. Well, maybe not The Beehive, but the others.

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On 2024-03-06, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

> https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/

Huh. I had no idea that the Romy Schneider movie _La Mort en direct_
was based on a novel.

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In article <slrnuuhhpr.2rsm.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>On 2024-03-06, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/
>
>Huh. I had no idea that the Romy Schneider movie _La Mort en direct_
>was based on a novel.

I had no idea that movie existed.
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In article <usa11v$rfv$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
>
>Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
>are ten that stand the test of time.
>
>https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/

TEN? Have the editors doubled your word count?

-GAWollman

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On 3/6/2024 9:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
>
> Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
> are ten that stand the test of time.
>
> https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/

I think that I am zero for ten.

Lynn

In article <usa11v$rfv$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
>
>Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here
>are ten that stand the test of time.
>
>https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/

Hm. I haven't read many of these.

I'm sure I've read "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen", but I recall
nothing about it. I generally like Piper, though.

I read "Of Mist and Grass and Sand" back in Analog way back
when. It kind of left me cold -- decent enough story, but
I just could not suspend disbelief in the technology.

The June 1977 Analog I read. "Eyes of Amber" doesn't stick
with me, but I hated "The Screwfly Solution" about an order
of magnitude more than the computer in that infamous Harlan
Ellison story hated humans.

Lots and lots of good stuff in Spider Robinson's "The Best
of All Possible Worlds". This was my introduction to
"The Princess Bride"; the "Duel on the Clifs of Insanity".

The rest I haven't read.
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